Immortal Procreation Clause: Difference between revisions

* As a demonstration of why this trope is often necessary, the site ''Grudgematch'' had a [http://www.grudge-match.com/History/bond-indy.shtml hilarious take on the disastrous consequences] of James Bond winning immortality in the grudgematch: massive inbreeding due to James' libido.

* Elves in ''[[Tales of MU]]'' are true immortals in terms of lifespan, and generally quite sexually potent as part of their being [[Our Elves Are Better|better than everybody]]. They keep their birth rate low by doing things that don't produce children.

* [[Word of God]] (pun intended) has this as being the demographic issue with the angels in ''[[The Salvation War]]'' -- "angelic females simply are not very fertile and the chance of conception is extremely low," so the reason for the war being fought on Earth is to put off or prevent any human incursion into Heaven. Whereas the daemons tended to be [[Kill'Em All|killed ''en masse'']] in [[Nightmare Fuel|generally horrible ways]] during the [[Curb Stomp Battle|Curb-Stomp War]], their birth rate will allow them to eventually recover, whereas angels dying off in those numbers might actually cause them to go extinct.

** Although as of Chapter 83, it seems that the low birth rate of the angels was at least partially due to Yahwehh's obsession with controlling sex and sexuality and now that {{spoiler|he's been killed}} there's been a rash of pregnancies among the angels {{spoiler|including Maion}}.